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梅暦見立八勝人 六 男達千鳥懸の毬之助(収載資料名:豊国画帖)

豊国 · 1859 · ゑひすや · 1 picture

A Japanese woodblock print from 1859 by Toyokuni, published by Ewiya, part of a picture album of kabuki-style actor portraits in the ehon tradition, made for popular urban buyers in Edo. The single print shows a standing man in a patterned blue kimono with a white collar and red undershirt against a bold red-and-cream background with vertical columns of calligraphy, and a designer could take its strong flat colour blocks, decorative kimono motifs, and dense vertical text layout as a model for bold graphic framing.

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National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library